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We won't be getting to 60 this year. So ttc has no reason now to put that out to a new tender. With an option for 200. If the ramp up and final total in 2019 from bbd doesn't happen the ttc needs to be clear that they will fill the order from the other supplier. They should hold them to their...

So, my question is where is the leadership. Toronto is facing an existential threat to its streetcar system with the existing vehicles only having a short amount of time before they are useless, metrolinx is facing an existential threat to its own reason for existence and the lrt program in...

Are there any systems that the ttc could source old vehicles from? Boston took our vehicles, can we get some back?

I've been thinking that metrolinx should replace the vehicles in Mississauga with vehicles that have lithium-ion batteries. That would give them the ability to build through Brampton without overhead wires. They could open the line with the BBD vehicles if they arrive and then shift them to...

In the case of spadina station though the time gate should be somewhere in the tunnel after the station. That way cars can unload, move forward, load...as soon as a car arrives behind them the loading car can move forward into the tunnel 4 or 5 car lengths and wait for whatever correct spacing...

The solution is simple...and I'm surprised that the staff didn't include it in their report.... Build LRT on Main...AND build it on the other routes that are being advocated... Problem solved... LRT is nice like that, you don't have to build one route...in fact building multiple routes makes...

One might even think at this point that it could be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the federal government...along the lines of - if we can't get another 1B$ from the feds we might have to cancel that Toronto contract - and with it chances of a second Trudeau term. The worst that...

So I am assuming that the carbon tax will mostly go to transit? Is that a reasonable assumption? Tory basically has to come up with a funding plan this year or none of his plans will be able to move forward. Wonder what his plan will be.

its likely that upx will still have low ridership at bloor Dundas until the tunnel is built. In the meantime they need to be competitive with the airport rocket from Kipling. The only way I see that happening is if there is essentially a very low transfer at bloor/Dundas until the tunnel is...

I'm interested in the discussion around woodbine. Is the idea that there would be a line across lakeshore up to Gerard on woodbine? Or would it continue up to the subway or maybe go along Kingston Rd. A complete route from woodbine over to park lawn would be pretty impressive. It would also...

We keep hearing this year. But without a signed contract for new bikes this is still a ways off. Lead time for 1000+ bikes is going to be a while. Plus it still doesn't sound like they have their ducks in a row re: metrolinx, ownership, operating outside Toronto boundaries or presto. It would be...

Tory needs to do what Ford did with the scarborough subway....get a funding mechanism through council...Ford didn't have a plan, he just started collecting money....starting with a small amount and increasing every year...for 20-30 years. The city should as part of this funding mechanism...

If this thing can take bikes it will be a winner...lots of people would love to bike down to the brickworks, but not necessarily back up... If they can also reconfigure the castle frank ramp to have a separated bike path to the brickworks it would open up the valley much more than the death...

I can't wait for when we build a $2 Billion station right next to city hall and all we get is a doorway off the path and an open air stairway next to the fountain in Nathan Philips Square...

Somebody should just make a motion to change it to a separated bike highway (go full on solar panelled express 4 lane bike track, with misting and cooling stations every 100 metres)...just to piss off Scarborough...

The question is when will they do a test...this won't happen without a soft launch of some sort...I'd say TIFF makes sense, but the problem is that TIFF blocks the streetcars as well...maybe in the week leading up to TIFF and the week after TIFF...then expand it to all summer next year...

I would assume if there is nothing at the TPA board meeting on the 25th then it likely won't happen for the summer...there was nothing in january...

Wonder when they will add in the Ryerson connections given that it will eventually be connected up...

This may be a better way to look at the order...we need 60 as a minimum... If we are going to extend the waterfront and st. clair/jane, and maybe kingston road or other potential routes (lakeshore to hurontario?)...maybe we look at buying more than 60... An order of 100 would certainly be...

I think the question no longer is when will the vehicles arrive...it's when will they be worked on... Maybe they've given up, and just forgot to tell us... What's happening with that extra 60 vehicles we needed...we could have a contract signed with some other company by now....we knew in the...